20040427: LDM Linux OS Question

>From: "Kauffman, Chad" <address@hidden>
>Organization: CUP
>Keywords: 200404271518.i3RFIeCT026254 LDM OS

Chad,

>We're ready to purchase our server here at California Univ. to handle
>the data stream from UNIDATA, but had one remaining question yet
>regarding the OS.  Because of our purchase limitations from Dell, some
>of the servers come pre-bundled with certain-type OS.  The one we are
>now limited to is "RED HAT Linux," rather than the recommended Linux 9.0
>Professional.  Our question(s) is/are:  Is there a significant different
>difference between OS?

There are differences from one distribution of Linux to the next.
Unidata officially supports only RedHat Linux, but numerous sites
are running on different distributions:  Debian, SuSE, Slackware, ...

>Would we still be able to setup the datastream
>from UNIDATA with RED HAT Linux on our server?

Yes.

>Thanks in advance for your assistance!

No worries.

>Best Regards,
>--chad kauffman

>________________________________
>
>From: Thomas L. Mote [mailto:address@hidden]=20
>Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 11:01 AM
>To: Clipper, Kerry
>Cc: Kauffman, Chad
>Subject: Re: Bandwidth Question
>
>I don't think I is limited to member sites. I was able to click on the
>link
>in this returned message and went straight to the site. You are probably
>at the point where you want to contact unidata support. You can go
>ahead and register as a site, then you will have access to the software
>as well. The support e-mail is just address@hidden. They
>are usually very prompt in responding.

>From address@hidden  Tue Apr 27 09:40:50 2004

>Chad,

>I'll let Unidata respond, but I suspect their
>answer will be to go ahead and not to worry.
>The LDM, in particular, has been built on many 
>platforms. I suspect the RedHat linux that dell
>has listed is RedHat 9. 

>...

>Tom

Cheers,

Tom Yoksas
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